^Lot 148 Mercury 7

Nostalgic color limited edition 35 x 25 print, numbered #505/1500, featuring an artist’s rendition of the Mercury 7 launch, with portraits of each astronaut interspersed throughout the clouds, signed in pencil by Alan Shepard, John Glenn, Deke Slayton, Scott Carpenter, Wally Schirra, Gordon Cooper, and Gus Grissom’s wife, Betty. Print was published to inaugurate and finance the Mercury Seven Foundation, a non-profit national scholarship fund founded by the Mercury astronauts. Rolled and in fine condition.